Cabinet des Modes, 22e Cahier, 2e Figure
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October 1, 1786 |

PLATE II.

The young Man wears under his coat a gilet of canary's tail colored silk, embroidered in green silk.
His breeches are of drap de soie, also canary's tail color.
His stockings are silk, with white and apple-green stripes.

His shoe buckles are silver, oval, with four flat rings on top, and fastened with little bars. His garter buckles are also silver, in a long oval.
In his watch-pockets, in the front, he carries two watches. From one hangs a simple black cord, with a very-large key; from the other a gold chain, decorated with charms.
Around his neck, wrapped, three times, a full cravat of muslin, whose two ends come to form a little knot in front.
The manchettes and the jabot of his shirt are of plain batiste, with flat hems.
His hair is done with a single large curl on each side, which decorates the face. This practice, very-old, has come back today; but the greatest number are still done with four large curls on each side, of which three are below and one is above. The hair of our Man is braided behind à la Panurge.
On his head is a hat à la Jockei, with a deep crown, trimmed around with two wide black ribbons, which pass through a long buckle, and form a large bow in it.
He holds his right hand supported on his jet cane; and his left hand on his hip.
Young men begin to wear a gold and green gance around their jockei hats, which pass on the left side in a little copper buckle.
* a second-hand clothes dealer
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